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We talk St Kilda Film Festival. It is the 33rd year for the Film Festival and this year we talk about the 100 top Australian shorts and the Calendar of events aimed at bolstering the skills of filmmakers with Festival Director Paul Harris.

Experienced filmmaker Margot Nash speaks about her new film about the silences that can be found in every family.

Grant Dodwell talks about how his company has been able to launch ANT Live - Australian National Theatre to our cinema screens. The first in a series of productions David Williamson's Emerald City is our now.

In what could be the next Castle, Damien Hill's film Pawno set in Footscray is a darling of a film. It is about to be released by Village and you would be silly not to put it in your calendar to see. We are lucky this episode of Showreel to chat with Damien Hill hot from his Q & A with Margeret & David in Sydney.

Wide Open Sky is the amazing tale of a choir master who travels 4,000 kilometres a year to bring together kids from remote NSW communities to sing in a life changing performance. We talk to director Lisa Nichols about this amazing Australian documentary winner of the Audience Prize for best documentary in last years Sydney Film Festival.

Jessica Pearce from Running Panda Films from Melbourne tells us about their 5 part webseries Waiting on Sound that has just been selected for the Toronto WebFest later in  2016.

Q & A at Nova with director/ writer of Sherpa Jennifer Peedom.

Crushed the feature debut from writer/ director Megan Riakos. This murder/ mystery/ thriller was filmed in Mudgee. Opened recently in Sydney with screenings around Australia. Check out FanForce for screening details.

The Will to Fly  the story of Lydia Lassila, Australian gold medallist in aerial skiing. We speak to directors Katie Bender and Leo Baker.

The Australian film that captures the consequences of ice in country communities Watch the Sunset is almost finished. Co-director Michael Gosden talks about the lead up and shoot in Kerang and US interest in the production. To help out with the final touches you can contribute to their $10,000 crowdfunding request at https://australianculturalfund.org.au/ 

A little diversion from the Australian film industry to a chat with US director Catherine Hardwicke who directed Toni Collette in Miss you Already which has just come out on Blu-ray.

Sue Brooks writer/ director of Looking For Grace gives us an incite into the making of the film which is showing at selected Australian cinemas.

Melbourne Made movies program at QV open air cinema.

Sharon Connolly, former CEO of Film Australia, talks about the Government of the Sale of film assets Lindfield studios in Sydney to feed US multinational film production on Australian shores. Sharon calls for a distinction to be made between cultural subsidies and industry subsides. See Senator Ludlows questioning of Communications Minister re: grant of $47 million to 20th Century Fox and Disney b...

Today we are looking at an outside cinema experience which combines community building with film exhibition at Gasworks in Albert Park.

TedxSydney runs a film competition to coinside with its Festival of Ideas held at the Sydney Opera House every year. The film comp curator, Melanie Horkan explains. Gus Berger tells us about his film business venture QV Cinema which is screening throughout summer up to February.

Producer Sue Maslin talks about The Dressmaker & a new Screen Australia initiative to support women in film. 

Back To Back Theatre is an internationally successful theatre compny located in Geelong that has at its core neurodivergent and/ disabled people. Five of the core group of actors talks to Showreel about their art as they move on to a new film project.

The Cairne Brothers talk Scare Campaign which is opening this years Monster Fest screening from November 26-29 at the Lido Cinema in Hawthorn, Melbourne.

MIM film festival focuses on Melbourne film makers. It all began 7 years ago for a single evening and has now expanded to four days with shorts and feautures from across Melbourne. Showreel talks to Ivan Malekin, Festival Director and award winning film director Sophie Townsend who will be screening her feature Pretty Good Friends on Sunday Nov 29.

A Motion Designer explains what it is and why it is such a fansciating career in film and television.

The first feature to have ever been made in Vanuatu TANNA is the result of the local natives and an Australian crew who retell a local love story which changed all their lives.

A chat with director Matt Bate about the delightful Sam Kemke's Time Machine which defies category but warms the cockles of the viewer's hearts. Taken from the material collected since Sam Kemke's 19th birthday to the present day, Matt and his team explore the meaning of time and dare I say it the meaning of life.

Alex & Eve is an Australian romantic comedy which is opening the Greek Australian Film Festival. We spoke to two of the leads Richard Brancatisano & Tony Nikolakopoulos  for their view on acting and the experience of working on Adam & Eve.

Corey Hague a local media maker building a career single handed talks about making Tour: Blunder Down Under, a comedy available on SBS catch up.